Re: http, the whole http, nothing but http

At 21:22 02/10/03 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
>Roy Fielding wrote:
> > any URI, no matter how abstract its referent or how obscure the
> > scheme, can be placed in the context of a dereferencing system
> > that supplies representations of whatever is supposedly identified
> > by that URI.
>
>I think this is too limiting a model; you have to squint too hard
>to see what happens with POST or "mailto:" or "telnet:"
>as "supplying a representation".

I find I agree with Roy on this.

I read what he said as noting that it is *possible* to treat any identifier 
as dereferencable, not that to do so would always be desirable.  As such, I 
regard his comment not as describing a model but explaining a possibility, 
which in turn suggests (to me) that a model that depends on hard-and-fast 
distinctions between identifiers and locators doesn't always stand up.

#g


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